High Rise Dreams

This film made in 2003 is a potted history of the LCC architects' department at County Hall and their designs and achievements in post-war housing, concentrating on the landmark estates and new towns, in addition to projects by others in Sheffield and Newcastle:-
"Overwhelmingly the majority of council housing was built as houses with gardens because we thought that everybody should have this kind of idyll of a little house and a little garden.
But in the cities where you were trying to put back very large numbers of people from slums that were very densely occupied there was a realisation that you couldn't simply build houses with gardens there and that's where the modernist ideas came into play"
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